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Funding, Acquisitions and Partnerships – A Chart for the Growing Big Data Universe

By Alex Williams Nov 22, 2011

I sat down with James Kobleius at the IBM Information on Demand conference several weeks ago and listened almost open-mouthed as he described the Hadoop universe. I kept thinking “someone needs to make a…

Data Recovery and Backup Industry Sees Growing Adoption, New Products

By Maria Deutscher Nov 22, 2011

The big data explosion many companies are experiencing today is leading to a number of changes in the traditional datacenter, and data recovery and backup is an area that is no exception. Bigger datasets…

ActiveState Offers Free Tool for Developers

By Maria Deutscher Nov 22, 2011

ActiveState’s Stackato Micro Cloud comes out of beta today, and will remain a free offering to developers. Stackato is the company’s Cloud Foundry-based open platform-as-a-service, which differentiates itself by being vendor agnostic with support…

Microsoft Grows Search, Personal Cloud Strategy with Latest Buy

By Saroj Kar Nov 22, 2011

Microsoft has been pretty quiet on the acquisition front in recent months, one of its last major acquisitions being the Skype deal for $8.5 billion in May. But the software giant is once again on…

Heroku Launches Standalone PostGres Database-as-a-Service

By Klint Finley Nov 22, 2011

Today Heroku launched a new PostGres database-as-a-service. PostGres is a popular open source SQL database server that serves as an alternative to MySQL and Oracle. It has a reputation as a mature, reliable and…

Security Concerns around Encryption are not Aimed at Big Brother Alone

By Maria Deutscher Nov 22, 2011

The worries concerning the need for encryption to keep the Big Brother from spying over the private citizen have been cropping up from time to time rather frequently, but now a twist to the…

Dried Strawberries Bitcoin Style, Uses Heat from a Mining Rig

By Kyt Dotson Nov 22, 2011

An enterprising grocer, and Bitcoin miner, from Canada has decided to put the waste-heat from his or her mining rig to good use and produced a product with it: dried strawberries. BetaBeat caught the…

Klout Kicks in Google Plus

By Alex Williams Nov 22, 2011

Klout added Google Plus to its scoring algorithm this morning and its leading to big jumps for people active on Google’s newest social network. Klout began developing its model for Google Plus in late September. Today, Klout started…

VMware’s PaaS Ranks High, Mac Users Catch a Break (for Now)

By Maria Deutscher Nov 22, 2011

A couple of interesting updates are coming out of EMC’s virtualization subsidiary VMware. The first highlight is a fresh Evan Data survey which concluded that developers find Cloud Foundry, VMware’s open-source platform-as-a-service offering, to…

Chaos Computer Club Teaches German Airports that Good Security isn’t RFID Deep

By Kyt Dotson Nov 22, 2011

It looks like the Chaos Computer Club are at it again and recently revealed during a German TV programme entitled “Data theft via wireless – security risks at German airports” that their airports have…

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Funding, Acquisitions and Partnerships – A Chart for the Growing Big Data Universe

Microsoft Grows Search, Personal Cloud Strategy with Latest Buy

Heroku Launches Standalone PostGres Database-as-a-Service

Security Concerns around Encryption are not Aimed at Big Brother Alone

Dried Strawberries Bitcoin Style, Uses Heat from a Mining Rig

Klout Kicks in Google Plus

Chaos Computer Club Teaches German Airports that Good Security isn’t RFID Deep

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